NATIONAL CIVIC REGISTRATION ACT

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NATIONAL CIVIC REGISTRATION ACT

CHAPTER N16 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.       Establishment of the Department of National Civic Registration.

2.       Appointment of Chief Registrar and other staff.

3.       Functions of the Department.

4.       Registers.

5.       Alteration of registers.

6.       Custody of registers.

7.       Registration and registration areas.

8.       Issue of national identity card.

9.       Replacement of lost, defaced or destroyed national identity card.

10.     Surrender of national identity card.

11.     Power to require proof of information.

12.     Establishment of committees.

13.     Production and inspection of national identity card.

14.     Evidence.

15.     Offences and penalties.

16.     Annual abstract of registered persons.

17.     Regulations.

18.     Interpretation.

19.     Short title.

Schedules

First Schedule — Supplementary provisions relating to registration

Second Schedule — Forms

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NATIONAL CIVIC REGISTRATION ACT

An Act to introduce a system of national civic registration for all Nigerians and to specify the procedure and requirements for such registration.

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(Commencement)    [1st September, 1979])               

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1.       Establishment of the Department of National Civic Registration

(1)     There is hereby established within the Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs, a department to be known as the Department of National Civic Registration (in this Act referred to as “the Department”) which shall be responsible in accordance with the following provisions of this Act, for national civic registration of all citizens of Nigeria of, or above the age of eighteen years.

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